BOOK THE TENTH.
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Hræsvelger starting, rears his giant bulk, 330
And from his Eagle pinions shakes the storm.
And from his Eagle pinions shakes the storm.
High on her stately steed the Martial Maid
Rode foremost of the war: her burnish'd arms
Shone like the brook that o'er its pebbled course
Runs glittering gayly to the noon-tide sun. 335
Her foaming courser, of the guiding hand
Impatient, smote the earth, and toss'd his mane,
And rear'd aloft with many a froward bound,
As tho' the Maiden's skill, and his own strength
Proud to display. The light gale with her plumes 340
Wantoned. Even such a fair and warlike form
Pelides moved from Scyros, where, conceal'd
He lay obedient to his mother's fears
A seemly Virgin; thus the Youth appear'd
Terribly graceful, when upon his neck 345
Deidameia hung; and with a look
That spake the tumult of her troubled breast,
Fear, anguish, and upbraiding tenderness,
Rode foremost of the war: her burnish'd arms
Shone like the brook that o'er its pebbled course
Runs glittering gayly to the noon-tide sun. 335
Her foaming courser, of the guiding hand
Impatient, smote the earth, and toss'd his mane,
And rear'd aloft with many a froward bound,
As tho' the Maiden's skill, and his own strength
Proud to display. The light gale with her plumes 340
Wantoned. Even such a fair and warlike form
Pelides moved from Scyros, where, conceal'd
He lay obedient to his mother's fears
A seemly Virgin; thus the Youth appear'd
Terribly graceful, when upon his neck 345
Deidameia hung; and with a look
That spake the tumult of her troubled breast,
Fear, anguish, and upbraiding tenderness,
Gazed
